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| 03 September 1966 | Athletic Club member breaks a 3-mile hill course record Members of Wallasey Athletic Club went to Denbighshire last Sunday to compete over the 3-mile hill course at Foel Glap. Brian Woolford broke the course record in a time of 14:58, and Dave Lockley completed the course in a personal-best time of 15 mins. 19 secs. Read more... |
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| 10 September 1966 | A Record for Dave? Wallasey A.C. have two teams in today's two mile team race at Stretford, whilst Dave Lockley goes for his final run of the season 'over the sticks' in the youths' 1,000 metres steeplechase. Read more... |
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| 17 September 1966 | Barlow runs well in two mile race Ron Barlow, Wallasey Athletic Club's foremost runner did well in the two-mile team race at Stretford, Manchester, on Saturday. He was the first of the club's runners home in 11th position. Read more... |
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| 01 October 1966 | W.A.C. runners' placings in road race of 210 Four members of Wallasey Athletic Club ran in the 6th annual Chris Vose 7-rnile road race at Warrington last Saturday. The event has been won every year by Ron Hill, and this year was no exception. Read more... |
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| 08 October 1966 (New) | First of the season league run results Wallasey Athletic Club were hosts last Saturday for the first League run this year. Leo Carroll of Wirral A.C., who has just returned from America, won the senior event in 27 mins 48 secs and his team won with 58 points, having six in the first 18. Read more... |
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| 15 October 1966 (New) | Youth team are county relay champs Wallasey A.C. went to Moss Farm, Winnington, last Saturday, to run three teams in the Cheshire Road Relay Championships and their 'A' team won the junior event. The full course of 3¼ miles was divided into six legs. Read more... |
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| 22 October 1966 | 18 teams start only 14 finish Four teams out of the 18 which took part in Sefton Park Road Relay on Saturday, failed to finish. The two teams from Wallasey Athletic Club not only completed the course, but produced some remarkably good times between them. Read more... |
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| 29 October 1966 | Athletic club 7th in cross country In last Saturday's league run at Woolton, in which 89 runners started, the senior event was won by Leo Carroll of Wirral A.C. who covered the 6½ miles cross-country in 36 mins. 7 secs. Wirral .A.C. won the team event with a score of only 87 points, Wigan coming second with 105 points and Live Read more... |
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| 05 November 1966 | Levy of 10s. on all athletes - County youth relay declared void By a majority of 164 to 140, the bankruptcy of athletes was temporarily averted by the decision of the Amateur Athletic Association's general meeting in London last Saturday: a 10s. levy is to be imposed upon all athletes of 17 years and over, who wish to compete in open competition. Read more... |
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| 12 November 1966 (New) | Schools' athletics match Today Wallasey Athletic Club promote the 1966 Wallasey Schools' Cross-Country Championships at Leasowe Road playing fields. The first race, scheduled for 1.15 p.m. is the youths' championship for boys, aged 15 to 18 over a three-mile course and is for individual honours and not a team race. Read more... |
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| 19 November 1966 (New) | Mammoth entry for School's cross-country This year there was a record number of competitors in the Wallasey Schools' Cross-Country Championships, organised by Wallasey Athletic Club last Saturday. As is the trend, the youngest boys were the most numerous. Read more... |
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| 26 November 1966 | Wallasey G.S. fifth in Daily Post Road Race The thirteenth annual Waterloo Schools Road Races sponsored, by the 'Daily Post' were held in perfect, but cold, conditions. Wallasey athletes competed on behalf of Wallasey Grammar School. Read more... |
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| 03 December 1966 (New) | Schoolboy runs well for Athletic Club's senior team In the third and final league race at St. Helens last the Senior race was won by Cyril Leigh of Wigan, who proved too strong for the ex-junior international John McLoughland and of Sutton. Read more... |
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| 10 December 1966 | Cheshire title for Wallasey Running in her first county cross-country championship, 14-year-old Pat Robertson, a pupil at Oldershaw Grammar School, brought distinction to herself and the Wallasey Athletic Club by leading the field of 26 runners home at Winnington Park, Northwich last Saturday. Read more... |
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| 17 December 1966 | Wallasey Athletic Club 7th in relay In the H. S. Finney cross-country relay held at Preston last Saturday, Wallasey Athletic Club entered two senior teams. Read more... |
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| 31 December 1966 (New) | Athletic Club's 60th Cross-Country Championships Today Wallasey Athletic Club hold their 60th annual cross-country championships today at 2.30 p.m. from the club H.Q. in Leasowe Road, over similar courses to the 1965 races. Read more... |
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| 07 January 1967 | Athletes 60th Championship Last Saturday, Wallasey A.C. held its 60th annual cross-country championships. There were to have been five races but there were insufficient competitors to warrant this, in fact there were only two races. Read more... |
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| 14 January 1967 | Woolford in county team Last Saturday the Cheshire County Cross-Country championships were held at Arrowe Park under very wet and muddy conditions. The senior race was won by H. Phipps of Sale Harriers, the team trophy going to Wirral A.C. who had a total of 66 points, Altrincham were second with 89 and Sale third with 100 Read more... |
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| 21 January 1967 | Medals for A.C. members Wallasey Last Saturday, Wallasey Athletic Club took part in the Liverpool & District Cross-Country Championships at St. Helens. In the youths' 3-mile race Wallasey took the bronze medals with a total of 116 points. Read more... |
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| 28 January 1967 | Cheshire County Championship Despite an exceptionally fast time set by the leading runners in the All-England Inter-Counties Cross-Country Championships at Leicester on Saturday, Cheshire still came 11th, only two places lower than last year. Read more... |
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| 04 February 1967 | Local lads win in photo finish Highlight of the West Lancashire championships, held at Blackburn last Saturday, was the emergence of Wallasey A.C. junior team as a force to be reckoned with in northern cross-country circles. Read more... |
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| 04 March 1967 | Wallasey girls brave the storm in National Cross-Country races There were record fields in all three sections of the National Cross-Country Championships for ladies, which were held at Blackburn last Saturday when Wallasey's captain, Barbara Banks and young Pat Robertson took part in the senior and intermediate races respectively. Read more... |
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| 04 March 1967 | Oldershaw Runner Third in Northern Championships Cheshire Champion, Pat Robertson, of Wallasey Athletic Club and Oldershaw High School, put up a great performance at Rochdale last Saturday when she finished third in the girls' Northern Cross-country Championships. Read more... |
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| 11 March 1967 | Athletic Club team 29th in national championship Wallasey junior men's team travelled down to Norfolk last weekend to compete in the English Cross-Country Championships. Read more... |
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| 18 March 1967 | Wilson Wallasey's best in athletes' busy weekend Wallasey's athletic forces were split three ways last weekend when groups from the club attended meetings at Derby, Stretford and Warrington. Read more... |
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| 25 March 1967 | Mel Schless 18th in English Schools' Cross-Country Mel Schless, of Wallasey, who came second in the Cheshire Championship last month, excelled himself in last Saturday's English Schools' Cross-Country Championships, taking eighth place in the intermediate event. This made him the first counter for the Cheshire team, which came eighth overall. Read more... |
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| 01 April 1967 | Athletic Club field five cross-country relay teams today Wallasey Athletic Club break all past numerical records today at Warrington, where no fewer than five of the club's youths' and boys' teams contest the annual cross-country 4 x 1-mile relays. Read more... |
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| 08 April 1967 | Athletic Club youths' team fifth in relay In Warrington Athletic Club's 5th annual cross-country relays held last Saturday, Johnny Jones ran the first leg for Wallasey Athletic Club youths' 'A' team and shortly after the start was in 4th place, but he dropped back to 6th position and finished with a time of 4 mins. 41 secs. Read more... |
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| 15 April 1967 | First track fixture for athletes today Wallasey Athletic Club travel to Wigan today for the first track fixture of the 1967 season and with 48 track events and 35 field events on the programme there would appear to be something for everyone to have a crack at. Read more... |
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| 29 April 1967 | Lockley beats the British record holder Running in his 1500 metres steeplechase at Warrington last Saturday, Wallasey Athletic Club's Dave Lockley pulled of a great win over Rochdale's British record holder, Colin Adshead, when he turned in a 4 mins. 31.6 secs. with Adshead 7 seconds behind in 4:38.5 and Snow (Liverpool) 3rd in 4:48.3. Read more... |
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| 13 May 1967 | Tea-han time at Lingham for athletic club runners With the Cheshire County Championships only three weeks away members of Wallasey Athletic Club have been spending the past two weeks in a series of time trials at the Lingham Park running track. Read more... |
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| 20 May 1967 | Mud mars Preston athletics meeting In conditions more suited to cross-country rather than track running, Wallasey Athletic Club's team in the 4 x 440 yds. senior event put up a great performance at Preston last Saturday. Read more... |
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| 27 May 1967 | Woolford Cheshire 20-mile road champion Wallasey Athletic Club secretary Brian Woolford took another step towards regaining his international ranking when he won the Cheshire 20-mile road championship at Huyton last Saturday. Read more... |
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| 03 June 1967 | County AAA championships at Moreton Classic event of the day in Cheshire County A.A.A. Championships at Lingham Park, Moreton this afternoon should be the senior three miles. There should be a real fight between the three main contenders in this event. Read more... |
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| 03 June 1967 | Wallasey 'at home' to Cheshire for athletic championships today Cheshire County A.A.A. hold their track and field championships at Lingham Park running track, Moreton, today at 2 p.m., and, weather permitting, the expected large crowd should see some exciting running, jumping and throwing events. Read more... |
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| 10 June 1967 | King's Parade Road races today Wallasey A.C. promote their first road and relay races today as part of the Wallasey Festival of Sport. Read more... |
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| 10 June 1967 | Fighting finish to win county junior mile Wallasey's Johnny Jones, pulled out all the stops in the junior final of the Cheshire mile at the County athletic championships held at Lingham Track last Saturday, when before a good crowd, he put in a fighting finish to snatch the gold medal in a personal-best performance of 4 mins. 34 secs. Read more... |
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| 17 June 1967 (New) | Dave Lockley and Wallasey A.C. win Festival Road Race Wallasey athlete Dave Lockley showed a welcome return to form last Saturday, when he won the youths' 2¼mile road race, held on King's Parade, as part of the Wallasey Festival of Sport. Read more... |
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| 24 June 1967 (New) | Johnnie, a hero of the track One of the highlights of the very first Saturday of the festival was the County Athletics Championships at Lingham Park, Moreton. If didn't attract a very big crowd, but it was fine athletics. Read more... |
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| 01 July 1967 (New) | Thirteen was a lucky number at Sale Wallasey A.C. scored 13 firsts, 4 seconds and 5 thirds in their inter-club visit to Sale last Saturday. Read more... |
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| 08 July 1967 | Wilson 2nd in Northern Championships Wallasey Athletic Club's Youth Champion, Ian Wilson returned a great 52.5 seconds when taking second place in the Northern Counties track and field championships at Grimsby last Saturday. Read more... |
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| 15 July 1967 | Athletic Club members help Oldershaw win in school championships Wallasey Athletic Club members contributed a large proportion of the points towards Oldershaw Grammar School's victory in the senior boys section of the Wallasey Schools Championships held at Oldershaw last Saturday. Read more... |
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| 22 July 1967 | Barbara Banks in fast half-mile Although many Wallasey A.C. members returned some fine performances over last weekend, pride of place must go to ladies' captain Barbara Banks. Read more... |
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| 29 July 1967 | Schless wins Widnes mile As on a number of occasions this summer, Wallasey Athletic Club's Melvin Schless again demonstrated that he will be a useful addition to the youths' cross-country team next winter when last Saturday he won the mile event at Widnes Police Sports. Read more... |
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| 05 August 1967 | Runners in some close decisions A small group of runners from Wallasey Athletic Club travelled to Warrington last Saturday for one of the periodic standard meetings held there and despite some stiff competition, acquitted themselves with distinction. Read more... |
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| 12 August 1967 | Personal records for Kin and Wilson in AAA's championships Despite being drawn in the outside lane and having to clear hurdles that were three inches higher than he had been practicing over (due to a last minute change in the championship rules, which brought them to the international height of three feet) Wallasey's Alan Kin still managed to qualify for th Read more... |
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| 19 August 1967 | Runners in area match on waterlogged track The inter-area match at St. Helens last Saturday between Liverpool District, Manchester district and Durham and District resulted in a clear victory for Liverpool by 179 points from Manchester (166 pts.) with Durham third (152 pts.). Read more... |
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